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B. O. STEWART, Jr. -& W. A. S'TEWART.

' IRON FENCE.

No. 473,028. 1 Patented Apr. 19", 1s92,

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' KANSAS.

IRON FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,028, dated April19, 1892.

Application filed .Tune 26, 1890;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RICHARD O. STEW- ART, J r., and WALLACE A. STEWART,citizens of the United States of America, residing at Wichita,in thecounty of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new andusef ul Improvements in Iron Fences, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings;

and the letters and figures of reference thereon, forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a front View of a portion of afence, showing different stages of construction of the panel. Fig. 2 isadetailed perspective of a section of the fence-rail; Fig. 3, a verticalcross-section of the fence-panel, showing one picket as it appears whenits construction is complete; and Fig. 4, a side View of a single picketas it appears in blank before beingincorporated in the panel.

This invention relates to certain improvements in the construction ofiron fences; and it consists in the particular construction of the paneland the manner in which its parts are secured together, whichimprovements are fully set forth and described in the followingspecification and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, R R represent the fence-rails, there being,preferably, two rails, an upper and a lower one, which are preferablymade of'channel-iron, as shown. The said rails are each provided alongtheir length with a series of equidistant rectangular holes R, as shownin Figs. 2 and 3, made of a size adapting them to fit the pickets whenthe pickets are placed through said railholes in panel form.

P represents the fence-pickets, which are made of flat bariron out tothe desired length, as shown in Fig. 4, and when in such form we termthem blank pickets.

In the construct-ion of the fence-panel the rails R R are arrangedparallel with each other, with their corresponding holes opposite eachother and the required distance apart to form the panel. The pickets P,as yet in blank form, are then passed at one end through the holes ofone rail R, as repre- Serial No. 356,765. (No model.)

sented, to the right in Fig. 1, after which they are grasped at aboutthe center of their length by some suitable twisting device and spirallytwisted from the rail to the twisting device, as shown, by the thirdpicket from the right in Fig. 1. If it is desired to place ornaments inspherical or other form on the pickets between the rails, said ornamentsare slipped upon the pickets after such initial twisting is done, asshown by the fourth picket from the right in Fig. 1 at B. When the saidornaments have been placed on the pickets, the pickets are again graspedat the place where the second rail will thereafter be placed andspirally twisted from the ornament to the twisting device, as shown bythe fourth picket from the leftin Fig. 1, and when each picket has beenthus twisted the second rail R is placed on their untwisted end portionsadjacent the twisted portions, as shown by the third picket from theleft, after which each end of each picket is grasped by the twistingdevice and twisted spirally out from each rail.

Should it not be desired to use the ornaments B, the twisting device isfirst adjusted to grasp the picket at the place where the second rail isafterward placed, and the entire intermediate portion of the picketswill in such instances be twisted by the first twisting operation.

By reason of the holes R of the railsRbeing made to fit the picketsplaced therein and by reason of the thickness of the rail metal at suchplaces the picket portions that rest in said holes will not be twisted;but when the other portions of the pickets are twisted each picket whereit passes through each rail will have an untwisted section, as shown atCin Figs. 1 and 3, and the twisted portion ofthe pickets adjacent eachrail will by reason of theirtwist from shoulders adjacent either side ofeach rail, which will prevent the said twisted portions from enteringthe rail-holes R and therefore the pickets cannot turn, as byunscrewing, and move from their seat.

It is the object of this invention to utilize material in theconstruction of iron fences much lighter than is usual and to form the 7pickets of the fence so as to increase their or dinary bendingresistance and to present a heavy appearance.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and useful,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. An iron fence consisting of two or more rails having series ofequidistant and corresponding picket-holes through their bodies and of aseries of flat metal pickets arranged through the holes of said railsand spirally twisted in the same direction throughout their length, thecurve being broken at each rail, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. The herein-described iron fence, consisting of two or more railshavingcorresponding specified.

RICHARD O. STEWART, JR. WALLACE A. STEWART. Witnesses:

WM. J. HUTOHINS, N. B. HAGIN.

